'Apprentice' loser Kwame Jackson debates job offer from 'Benefactor' Mark Cuban

Reality TV World ^ | April 17, 2004 | Wade Paulsen

[FairOpinion]

According to Extra!, Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, made a "huge job offer" to Kwame after Bill Rancic was hired by Trump instead of Kwame. Kwame told Extra! that Cuban had waited for hours at The Apprentice after-show cast party before finally cornering Kwame so that he could make the offer.

Cuban is an honest American success story. Born middle-class in Pittsburgh, Cuban went to Indiana University, where he honed his sales skills. After graduation, he started a computer consulting company -- although he knew nothing about computers. However, by a combination of his own drive, a little blarney and some good employees, Cuban eventually built the company, MicroSolutions, Inc., into a powerhouse that he sold to CompuServe for millions in 1990, seven years after its founding.

Prior to the job offer from Cuban, Fox News reported that Kwame had been offered the chance to return to his old firm, the NYC investment bank Goldman Sachs, at a substantial salary. However, Kwame turned the offer down and instead had planned to start a business with some friends of his focused on raising capital for black-run firms that focused on the upscale market.

[ridesthemiles]

None of these people were losers, although Omorasa does seem to be mentally ill. But at the beginning I thought she'd go all the way.

Perhaps her biggest problem is that she got lots of training working for the Clintons in the White House.
Lying and telling tall tales is all they ever practiced there.
I couldn't figure out why she was stupid enough to lie like she did on the final show, with cameras all over the place. If this woman thinks she can get a good job after proving herself to be such an untrustworthy person in front of the whole world, then she really is mentally unbalanced. She seemed to be trying at every turn to derail Quame. I really hope I never see her face ever again.

[ridesthemiles]

I do have my eyes set on running for Congress and eventually the White House. I sat in the White House and watched leaders make decisions. I’m thinking, if they can do it, so can I."
This confirms it: She IS mentally ill.
She hasn't figured out yet that her teachers in that White House administration were nothing but liars.

[Robert Drobot]

Prior to the job offer from Cuban, Fox News reported that Kwame had been offered the chance to return to his old firm, the NYC investment bank Goldman Sachs, at a substantial salary. However, Kwame turned the offer down and instead had planned to start a business with some friends of his focused on raising capital for black-run firms that focused on the upscale market.

This sounds right. He decided not to fire the only Black American on his team - after she deceitfully misinformed him and his team - twice.

A decision probably motivated by his concern about tarnishing his potential with black-run firms.

During the segments, I recall Kwame saying he not only wanted to work for Trump, but wanted to become Trump. A less than loyal exposure, I'd say.

It was said he told a friend, contrary to the stipulations in his contract with 'Apprentice', before the airing of the last segment, that a 'sister' was the problem.

Looks like anti-white bigotry to me.

[cyborg]

You're reading a bit much into it.

[EllaMinnow]

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[cyborg]

I already got in my 250 mph witch slap.

[EllaMinnow]

I got 291! I must hate her more than you - LoL.

[Deb]

Kwame had me rooting for him for the entire series...until he wussed out and didn't immediately fire that lying Clintonista, Omarosa. Unforgivable. That made him a loser in my book.

[Tall_Texan]

I kept listening to the local radio guy discussing all the "hot babes" on The Apprentice and I thought he was just joking. I didn't actually watch an episode until the one where Amy and one other chick were teamed up with Amy's boy toy and the other chick got fired.

So, by the time I really got interested, there was only Amy and she has that magic quality of looking hot sometimes and looking very ordinary at others (Madonna had that effect on me as well). She wore a different hairstyle for practically every segment (Mary Tyler Moore disease).

Kwame and Bill both seemed like good management material. I really expected Trump to figure out a way to hire them both.

[lewislynn]

I've met the guy and I think he's the type of boss that I have always wanted to work for.

I'd say talking to us about it is you're talking to the wrong people...You've already jumped a major hurdle, pursue it.

[TheSpottedOwl]

hahaha! Wait until my daughter and son in law see this. I actually watched the last two episodes to see what they were talking about. Whackdabitch!

OMG! That Omarosa ought to be ashamed of herself. On national tv, she sits there and lies through her teeth. Her incompetence is unbelievable. How hard can it be to follow through with travel plans? How hard is it to follow instructions, and keep someone in one place until the boss shows up? Of course it's way more important to try on stage costumes instead of answering your beeper or walkie talkie.

Because I only saw two episodes, I couldn't make up my mind who was the better of the two finalists. I thought they were both great. I feel bad for Kwame, though. If it hadn't been for that backstabbing little rat, Kwame could have won the job :-(

[cyborg]

If he takes up Cuban on his offer, he'd more money than Bill. I can't imagine anyone hiring that witch but knowing hollywood, I'm sure she'll make out like a bandit.

[spycatcher]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21110-2004Apr17.html

On 'Apprentice,' a Briefcase Study in Chutzpah

• The first season of NBC's "The Apprentice" may be over, but Chevy Chase's Sam Solovey, who was fired on episode No. 3, is still cashing in. On the Thursday night finale, Solovey offered a $250,000 bribe to Donald Trump if he'd hire him. He displayed and mentioned -- now this is important -- a Samsonite briefcase. Needless to say, Trump didn't take him up on the offer. (Since when does the Donald need $250,000 anyway?)

On Friday, Samsonite Sam went on local radio stations to brag about his business savvy. He didn't deny it when Brett Haber from Z104 (WWZZ) asked if he had a deal with the luggage company. Solovey replied smugly, "I gave them about a half-a-million-dollar ad spot on national TV," adding, "They won't let me say a darn thing, but I will say that the briefcase was promptly shipped in from the lovely Samsonite corporation."

He later told us he wouldn't discuss any "ancillary arrangements," including his deal with Samsonite. How much did they pay him? "I have no comment on that."

NBC wasn't pleased about the unsanctioned plug, he said, but insisted, "I can handle it."